Soft A sugar or a very light brown is to be preferred to granulated.
MORAVIAN SUGAR CAKES At 5 o'clock P.M.set a sponge or batter, consisting of 1 cup of mashed potatoes, 2 cups of sugar, 1 cup of sweet milk, scalded and cooled, 1/2 cake of yeast, dissolved in 1 cup of lukewarm water, 2 eggs 3/4 cup of a mixture of lard and butter, add 3 cups of flour, beat well, stand in a warm place to raise; at 9 o'clock add about 6 cups of flour.

Stand until morning in a warm place, near the range.
The following morning turn out on a floured bake-board, roll out cakes one inch thick, place in pie tins, when ready for the oven; punch half a dozen small holes in the top of cakes, in which place small bits of butter.

Sprinkle sugar over liberally and cinnamon if liked.

Bake in a moderate oven.
MARY'S POTATO CAKES 1 cup freshly-boiled mashed potatoes.
1 cup scalded sweet milk.
1 cup sugar.
Flour about 6 cups.
1 cake Fleischman's yeast.
2 eggs.
1/2 cup butter and lard mixed.
1/2 cup potato water.
At 7 o'clock in the morning Mary mixed a sponge consisting of a cup of mashed potatoes, 1 cup scalded milk, 1/2 cup sugar, 1-1/2 cups of flour and the cake of Fleischman's yeast, dissolved in half a cup of lukewarm potato water.

This was set to rise in a warm place near the range for several hours until light.